Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

On the recto of the front fly-leaf appears the following inscription: "John Ambler his booke. 1685. Nov.r 18 1685". And by a different hand: "Ex dono W:W:". On the verso: "Char. Gray 1712". On the verso of the back fly-leaf appears "Iohn Ambler 1701".

A John Ambler is traceable in the 1695 Marriage tax assessment as living with his wife Lucy in the Holborn Cross precinct of the parish of St Sepulchre London in the ward of Farringdon Without.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Formulary and precedent book of a London law clerk or attorney's scrivener, possibly John Ambler.

Archival Information

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also CLC/522/MS11527A.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:January to May 2011.

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